Agenda

Thursday, April 16
Location: International House, UC Berkeley
Opening Keynote

Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office

Panel 1: Origins of the 1976 Copyright Act 

Jane Ginsburg, Columbia Law School
Jessica Litman, Michigan Law
Peter Menell, UC Berkeley Law  (Speaker and Moderator)

Panel 2: The Role of the Author and the Acquisition and Duration of Their Rights 

Robert Brauneis, GW Law
Peter DiCola, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
David Nimmer, UCLA School of Law 
Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, UC Berkeley Law (Moderator)
Lunchtime Keynote Senior Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Panel 3: The Scope of Exclusive Rights and Modes of Enforcement

Oren Bracha, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law
Laura Heymann, William & Mary Law School 
Justin Hughes, Loyola Law School
Christopher Sprigman, NYU Law
Erik Stallman, UC Berkeley Law (Moderator)

Panel 4: The Shifting Line Between Federal and State Protection 

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Columbia Law School (Speaker and Moderator)
R. Anthony Reese, UCI School of Law
Guy Rub, Temple University School of Law
Marketa Trimble, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law

Friday, April 17
Location: International House, UC Berkeley

Panel 5: Copyrightable Subject Matter and the Special Problem of Software 

Clark Asay, BYU Law
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Law (Moderator and Speaker)

Panel 6: Unanticipated Consequences of New Technologies and Practices 

Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law
Matthew Sag, Emory Law
Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
Jennifer Urban, UC Berkeley Law (Speaker and Moderator)